Two Germanwings Airbuses make unscheduled landings in 24 hours

A Germanwings Airbus A319 was forced to divert to Stuttgart after it started losing oil – just a day after another flight operated by the company was forced to make an unscheduled landing in Venice when two passengers fell ill.

Flight 4U814 from Cologne to Venice with 123 passengers and five
crew was forced to land in Stuttgart on Saturday, after the plane
started losing oil and the pilots shut down one of the engines.

“This is a standard safety procedure. It was not an emergency
landing,” the airline stressed.

On Friday, another Germanwings Airbus on its way to Rome from
Hanover made an “alternative landing” in Venice after a
passenger and a crewmember became ill.

Eugino Bartolini, a professor from Rome, told the Il Messaggero
newspaper that a female passenger sitting in the row behind him
required assistance for “apprehension” and “fear of
flying.”

“We saw the plane gradually descending and then Venice’s
lagoon appeared. When the plane landed, the captain told us over
the microphone, in English, that a crew member and passenger were
unwell and so he had decided to land at Marco Polo,” he
said.